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• 31 oct 2016

  Bremen

  Call for papers - History

  Social Policies and the Welfare State in the Global South in the 19th and 20th century

  The conference aims to bring together an international group of junior and senior scholars from history and related fields who are working on the history of social policies and the welfare state in the Global South from a transnational, entangled or global history perspective.

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• 01 jui 2016

  Montpellier

  Call for papers - America

  The Emancipation of Bound Laborers in the Americas before the Abolition of Slavery

  What were the modalities of the emancipation of unfree workers? Which factors motivated the adoption of legislation regulating emancipations? Is it possible to establish a typology of the emancipators and of the emancipated servants and slaves? To what extent did slaves and indentured servants take part in their own liberation? Did the introduction of slavery provide any negotiating power to white servants, for instance by reducing their length of service? Did the practice of emancipation evolve in reaction to the advent of abolitionism, especially after the movement gained momentum and radicalized itself?

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